#amazon-rainforest

#amazon-rainforest

It is good news but it is qualified good news, said Prof Oliver Phillips from the University of Leeds. Our results apply only to intact, mature forests, which is where we are watching closely. They suggest the Amazon forest is remarkably resilient to climate change. My fear is that may count for little, unless we can stop the deforestation itself.

Lula approved a bill easing environmental licensing rules but vetoed or altered 63 out of nearly 400 articles due to pressure from environmental groups.

"We're finding that burning has major ecological impacts over large timescales and that regeneration is much more at risk-it's slower or not happening at all."

"Last year, Brazil experienced its most intense and widespread drought in seven decades. Combined with high temperatures, this caused the fires to spread on an unprecedented scale throughout the country."

Looking back on it, the path with shamanism started off at a young age. When I was a child, it was around seeing spirits and hearing bits and pieces, but I didn't know what it was.

Conventional archaeology overlooked the Amazon, assuming its wilderness couldn't support significant human culture, but new discoveries are proving otherwise, revealing a rich, ancient civilization.

Scientists believe the giant hill known as Cerro El Cono is just a geological oddity, but local Indigenous tribes see it as a sacred spirit.